My Founder’s Journey: From TwistLock to Palo Alto via Acquisition and Now Minimus – Ben Bernstein – FS #10

Ben Bernstein is the Co-Founder and CEO of Minimus. Previously, he was a venture partner and led Security Investing at ICONIQ Growth, a growth equity firm with family office roots with $80B+ of AUM, based in California. Prior to that, he was the SVP and Co-Head of Prisma Cloud, one of Palo Alto Networks’ main divisions. PANW acquired Ben’s previous container security company, Twistlock, where he was CEO and Co-Founder. Prior to Twistlock, Ben was a product and R&D lead at Microsoft where he spent 14 years working on various security initiatives in Windows and Microsoft’s security businesses. Ben holds a Computer Science degree and graduated cum laude from Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and an MBA with a scholarship of excellence from the Reichman University in Israel. Ben likes cooking, binging TV with his wife, and tropical weekends with the kids. Ben hates writing about himself in the third person.